Tennesseans won decisive victory at New Orleans A few years ago, I found a brochure for a New Orleans museum…
Author: Bill Carey
Bill Carey
Bill Carey founded Tennessee History for Kids in 2004. The non-profit organization helps teachers cover Tennessee history, American history, civics and basic social studies, and uses booklets, posters, inservices and the website www.tnhistoryforkids.org. Carey was a reporter in Nashville through most of the 1990s and has written six books, among them Fortunes Fiddles and Fried Chicken: A Nashville Business History and Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls: A History of Slavery in Tennessee.
A history of Tennessee town name changes and why they occurred By now, many people have heard that the Anderson…
This summer, I researched and wrote four new “Tennessee History for Kids” booklets. In the process, I found some remarkable…
During the first six months of this year, a committee assigned by the Tennessee Department of Education wrote a new…
Former slaves who left the South to move north and west in the 1870s were known as Exodusters. Many of…
In the 1920s, there was a sign along Highway 70 in White County that read: Property Line Tennessee Products Corporation…
Paul Clements spent 11 years researching first-person accounts of the early settlements of Middle Tennessee. He assembled every available account…
The Nashville Unionist and his glorious flag: Captain William Driver’s large American flag, handmade for the captain by the ladies of…
If Cornelia hadn’t gotten on that plane, she would have stayed in Tennessee for the rest of her life. She…
Two years ago, Tennessee History for Kids produced a poster that honored some of the state’s preserved historic buildings. Last…